Ciao, Fellini! (Or We Love Fellini!)

Portraits of a Mad Man

In the mid-1960s, Fellini, like many artists of the time, tried LSD.
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Portraits of a Mad Man
In a 1992 interview, Fellini acknowledged that he had experimented with LSD in the 1960s. "Objects and their functions no longer had any significance," he said of the experience. "All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment."

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